The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 52

Good morning everyone and welcome to Ballnwillin House Farm once again. Anther beautiful morning on the farm but The Mindful Farmer has had to use all of his mindfulness techniques to bear after I heard the news last night that the first wild boar were born in Donegal last week since 800 years ago. Now, nearly the whole country knows that we have been farming wild boar in Ireland since 1995 and before that in the UK and Hungary. RTÉ hadn’t done their homework here even though they have been on the farm several times filming them but anyway that’s where the mindfulness comes in. The rest of the family had heard the early news bulletin and were trying to figure out how to break the news to me and when they did I got an initial shock, but then I thought “how am I going to break the news to Biffo and Lulu about this and the storm and controversy their Grandma and Grandad caused when they first arrived in Ireland on December 6th 1995 making real history but enough of that. Our wild boar at Ballinwillin House Farm are part of the family now with many pictures on the Hall of Fame honoring them and likewise the deer and goats and all the animals bring me joy, farming and meeting them daily. I learn a lot from animals just being who they are. They live nearer to the earth and deeper within the earths soil. These wild animals know the world in a way we never will. We seldom manage to be where we are but they are always looking out from the here and now. I would now this morning, and day 52 of lock down on the farm, I would like to rest in the beauty of their being and in their company, feel the earth breathing with us all. Thank you my friends, my beautiful comrades, my deer, my wild boar, my goats, my hens.

Continue to pray, bless and heal each other.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick